Residents prepare food in a field kitchen in the courtyard of a destroyed house in the Left Bank district of Mariupol. Archival photoMARIUPOL, May 20.Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation delivered humanitarian aid to the right-bank part of Mariupol, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. In one of the residential areas, in the courtyard of the house at Metallurgov Avenue 127 A, investigators of the RF Investigative Committee distributed bread, cookies, drinking water and children's sweets. In total, about a ton of humanitarian cargo was delivered. About 500 people received help — from among the residents of the surrounding houses.Ural deputies delivered humanitarian aid to MariupolIn addition, next to the mobile distribution point for humanitarian aid, the RF IC deployed a field kitchen. There, anyone who came could get soldier's porridge with meat and hot tea. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On March 7, 12 days after the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Semyonov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual districts had begun. On April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, announced that the entire city territory had been cleared of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case was initiated in Russia). The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal plant and refuse to capitulate. Of these, more than 1,900 people have already surrendered, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said on Friday. launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
